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" EDWIN JOHN PAYNE GALLWEY, O-F WEYMOUTH, ENGLAND.

COlN-FREED APPARATUS FORDELIVERING STAMPS, 80c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 601,852, dated April 5, 1898. Application filed 00am 5, 1897. Serial No. 654,135. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN'JOHN PAYNE GALLWEY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain ,residing at Weymouth,England,have invented a new and useful Improved Coin- Freed Apparatus for Delivering Stamps and other Articles, of which'the following-is a specification.

This invention relates to coin-freed apparatus for delivering stamps, railway and other tickets, checks, and other articles, the said apparatus being, however, chiefly designed to be employed for the delivery of postagestamps.

According to my invention I provide a suitable casing, within which I arrange a band or ribbon of suitable material and designed to hold in pockets or the like the stamps or other articles to be delivered on the insertion of a coin into the apparatus. The band or ribbon is so arranged that it can be fed forward intermittently on the insertion into the apparatus of coins proper to the same and present a stamp or other article before an opening or orifice in the casing, all as hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a suitable arrangement of apparatus made according to my invention and designed to deliver postage-stamps. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof, the section being on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front sectional elevation of the apparatus, and Fig. 4 is' a sectional plan thereof. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5, Fig. 1, drawn to a largerv scale. Fig. 6 is an elevation, drawn to alarger scale, of a portion of the band or ribbon. Fig. 7 is a vertical transverse section thereof. Fig. 8 is a plan-of an arrangement of the apparatus with modified band-operatingmechanism. Fig. 9 is a detail thereof. Fig. 10 is a section, drawn to a larger scale, through an arrangement of band and delivery-openings which I sometimes employ. Fig. 11 is a plan thereof without the band. ,Fig. 12 is an elevation of a portion of this form of band.

Referring to Figs. '1 to 7, a is the casing of the apparatus, the said casing having a par-' tition which divides the till I) from the portion containing the mechanism.

0 is the band or ribbon, the construction of which is hereinafter described.

up, so that the said roller constantly tends to unwind the ribbon or band 0 from the roller dand wind it upon itself. 7 The movement of the spring-roller e is controlled by means of an escapement device consisting of a ratchet 9 upon the roller and a double pawl or let-0E device h, pivoted at h to the frame f and provided with an on twa'rdly-extending arm 1i, op- 'erated by the coin, as hereinafter described.

The number of teeth on the ratchet Q will correspond to the number of pockets contained in a length of ribbon 0 equal to the circumference of the spring-roller e, so that a to- .and-fro movement of the arm or extension 71 of the pawl It allows the spring-roller c to .move through the distance of one to0t-h,there-' by causing a length ofband or ribbon'c equal to the width of a pocket containing a stamp or other article to be unwound from the roller to pass in front of an orifice or window It in the apparatus, whereby the stamps or other articles held upon the face of the said band .are successively presented in front of the wind. The band 0 is guided by a strip j, so as dow or orifice k on the insertion of successive coins into the apparatus and can be easily removed from the band or ribbon, as hereinafter described.

The coin-chute consists of a passage Zof the exact width of the coins proper to the ma chine and of the same height and breadth as the said coins and so inclined that it conducts the coins inserted into it to the money-till 5, provided in the apparatus. The hereinbefore-described extension or arm 1' of the double pawl or let-off device h normally extends into the coin-chute through a slot Z therein, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, so as to block the passage of the coin m, which when inserted into the chutel drops onto the said extension or arm 43. To free the coin m and operate the mechanism, I provide a pusher n,

having an external knob or button 0, the said pusher working in a slot Z in the coin-chute l and being normally held in its uppermost position by a spring 1). The pusher n is so arranged that on the knob or button 0 being depressed by the purchaser the said pusher n descends upon the upper end of the coin m and thereby pushes the extension or arm 2' of the pawl 71. out of the way of the said coin, thereby releasing the pawl h from the tooth of the roller-ratchet g, with which it is in engagement, so as to allow the roller e to rotate through half a tooth and the coin m to drop into the till I). A spring q in connection with the pawl or let-01f device 71 immediatelyre turns the arm 2' of the same to its normal position, thereby releasing the ratchet 9 another half-tooth, so that during the operation the ribbon c is unwound from the roller d onto the roller 6 a length of the band 0 equal to the space of one tooth-that is to say, a length corresponding to the width of a pocket containing a stamp or other. article, which is therefore brought in front of the window or orifice in the front of the apparatus and can be removed by the purchaser.

In practice I find it advantageous to employ the following means for securing the stamps c to the band or ribbon c, it being essential that the said stamps shall be easily removable from the band or ribbon when exposed in the window of the apparatus: The band or ribbonc is folded over at its lower edge and the two contiguous parts-are stitched together at distances apart slightly exceeding the width of the stamps, which are then :in-

serted in the divisions or pockets 0 thus,

formed in the lower half of the band.

The lpocketsc are numbered in rotation, the first pocket on the band-that is to'say, the pocket last brought before the window'or orifice-k of the apparatus-having the word Empty written upon it andthel successive pockets being numbered 1, 2,, 3, 4, 850,, so'that whena pocket has been brought in front of a window and the stamp 'c removed therefromthe number on the pocketindicates the number of stamps still remaining on the band 0. fore the window, its pocket bears the word Empty, as above described, so that intending purchasers will be made aware that no more stamps can be obtained from the apparartus until it is refilled.

the upper half thereof is covered bya spring plate or tongue r, fixed to one side of theorifice and pressing with its free end against the band, so as to prevent the latter from being tampered with. A slit r is formed between theadjaoent edges of the glass plate rand thespring-plate 1", through which the upper half of theistamps extendand through which they may be withdrawn, as hereinafter described.

To enable the stamps c to be easily removed from thepockets, I provide the spring When the last stamp appears be- The lower half of the-orificek-iscovered by a glass plate r and plate or tongue 1" with a small inclined projection s, so that as the band is moved forward on the insertion of the coin in the apparatus, as hereinbefore described, the spring-tongue 1* gets behind the advancing stamp c, the upper part of which is then tilted outward as it slides onto the inclined projection s, as indicated in Fig. 5, so that the stamp can be easily removed from the pocket by the purchaser, the stamps being withdrawn through the slit 7*, formed between the edges of the plates 1' and 0".

t is a spring fitted to the bracket or frame f and the arms of which bear upon the cylinder or roller d for preventing the said roller and band from moving too easily, and the case of the apparatus is arranged so that it can be quickly and easily refilled for instance, the front maybe hinged and arranged to drop when the top is removed.

Although I have described the band as being wound intermittently onto a spring-roller, whichis the arrangement I have found to answer well in practice, it will be obvious that the intermittent movement of the roller can be effected positively on the insertion of the com.

In the arrangement of my apparatus illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9 the band 0 instead of being wound on a let-off roller is folded upon itself-and stored in a receptacle a. This receptacle a is provided with an orifice u for the band 0, having guide-rollers 11. L62, between which the said band passes. The receptacle contains-asliding :back u which is pressed against the rear part of the folded band c,so as to hold the said band taut. The take-up cylinder or roller 6 is in this case shown arranged tobe operated positively bythe pusher and coin. To thisend the hereinbefore-mentioned spring e is dispensed with and the ratchet g is actuated by a lever 12,;pivoted at o and having a rearwarclly-extending arm 1: upon which the coindrops when inserted into the apparatus. The front end of the lever 11 is jointed at r in such amanner that when it is pushed by the action of the coin m, in the manner hereinbefore described, into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. Sit is held rigid, so as to move the roller 6 in the direction indicated by the arrow to and feed forward the band 0 through a distance corresponding to one tooth of the ratchet g. The lever v is, as soon as the coin 'm has passed the arm o pulled back to its initial position by the spring 20, the joint 12 enabling it to pass the ratchet g. To hold the cylinder or roller in the positions into which it is intermittently moved onthe insertionof the coins, I provide aspring-catch Fig. 9,, whichengages with recesses 1 in the roller, the number of the said recesses y corresponding to that of the teeth of the ratchet g.

The band 0 instead of being foldedas hereinbefore described and as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7 can be folded along the center line, as shown in Figs. 10 and 12,so that the stampsl(or other articles) project above theband. In the construction of the delivery-orifice and guide j (illustratedin Figs. 10 and 11) the upper part of the guide is rabbeted and the band 0 passes through the channel formed by the glazed lower part of the orifice k and the front of the guide j. The said channel is of such a height that the band a is completely inclosed therein,the stamp c projecting through the slit j at the upper end thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 10. By this means the springtongue is rendered unnecessary, as access cannot be had to the band through the orifice k. I

It is clear that my apparatus can be provided with more than one ribbon, coin-chute, and set of rollers. It can,'for instance, be

arranged to deliver stamps of different values.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of m y said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1 claim is 1. In a vending-machine the combination with the band provided with a series of transverse pockets, each provided with an indicating device, means for feeding said band, a casing provided'with a delivery-aperture in line with the path of said band, a transparent plate closing a portion of said aperture and adapted to'lie over the indicating devices of said band, and a plate extending over the adjacent portion of said aperture, said plates having a slit formed between them in line with the path of the band to allow the articles carried by said band to project therethrough, substantially as described.

2. In a Vending-machine, the combination with the band provided with a series of trans- Verse pockets of feeding mechanism for said band, a casing providedwith a delivery-aperture in the path of said band, a pair of plates-extending over portions of said aperture and inclosing said band, said plates having their adjacent edges separated to form a slit in line with the path of the band, to allow the articles carried by the band to project therethrough, substantially as described.

3. In a vendingmachine, the combination with the band provided with a series of transverse pockets opening toward one edge of the band, feeding mechanism for said band, a casing provided with a delivery-aperture in the path of the band and a spring plate or tongue in said aperture for covering the exposed portion of the band, and provided with an inclined projection adapted to pass betweenthe band and the articles carried thereby, substantially as described.

4:. In coin-freed apparatus for delivering stamps and other articles the combination with a casing having a window or orifice, of aband forholding the stamps or other articles, of two rollers upon one of which the band is initially wound and upon the other of which the said band is intermittently wound upon the insertion of coins into the apparatus so as to bring the stamps upon the band successively in front of the window or orifice, and of a spring plate or tongue for covering the exposed portion of the band, and having an inclined projection for tilting forward the stamps or other articles in'the window or orifice, substantially as described.

, EDWIN JOHN PAYNE GALLWEY.

Witnesses:

KAY OPENSHAW,

THOMAS BELL. 

